Quotes by John Muir
3 quotes by John Muir (died 1914), taken from 2 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: Our National Parks and My First Summer in the Sierra.
Our National Parks
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“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”
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“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.”
My First Summer in the Sierra
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“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”